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I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

Alan Turing

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ALAN TURING

Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Development Myself Powerful
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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Children Education Mindset Technology
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
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Evidence Ideas Science
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
ALAN TURING

Development Myself Powerful
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
ALAN TURING

Design Technology Time

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

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